Hook and eye.



No. 628,!43. Patented July 4, I899.

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HOOK AND EYE.

(Application filed Apr. 8, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDW'IN WV. GROESGHEL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 628,143, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed April 8, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ED I W. GROESCHEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at J ersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hooks and eyes; and the object of my invention is to provide a device of this nature whose members are so constructed as to be readily susceptible of engagement and disengagement and which when engaged are securely locked together against accidental disengagement.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl Figure 1 is aview in elevation ofahook and eye formed of wire and constructed after the principles of my invention, the members thereof being engaged with each other. Fig. 2 shows in side elevation that form of the d'evice which appears in Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 4, and

5 illustrate modifications of the hook, showing various forms of tongue that may be employed in said hook; and Fig. 6 illustrates the members of the device as formed from a single piece of sheet metal.

The device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 may be thus described: The hook member 1 consists of a single piece of wire that is bent so as to form the essential parts of this member of the device-viz., the shank a, the bill I) at one end of said shank, and the pair of eyelets c c at the other end thereof. The members d d of the shank are spaced from each other, as shown in the drawings, and at e c said members are provided with oppositely-arranged incurvations that project toward each other. The bill is purposely made comparatively short and projects from the plane of the shank and its eyelets at about an angle of forty-five degrees. One of the eyelets c is formed at one extreme end of the wire, whereas the other, c, is situated, as shown, some distance from the other end of the wire. By forming eyelet c" at this point in the wire a portion of the latter is left to be used as a tongue g, which, as illustrated, extends toward the bill fromthe point g at an incline to the plane of the shank and is bent clownwardly near its free end, terminating at a point between the members of the shank. The

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bend or deflection h in said shank touches or nearly touches the tip of the bill I) and is so gradual that ready passage of the eye into and out of engagement with this member of the device is possible without the necessity of first pressing down said tongue with the finger.

The eye member 2 is formed similar to the ordinary eye,with this exception, that its loop 1' is transversely elongated and is so spaced from the eyelets jj of said eye as to leave recesses 1c is between said loop and the eyelets, the latter being closed at all points by bringing its terminating portions in contact with each other. By this arrangement it is possible, as indicated in the drawings, to sew the eye down at three points, and thus prevent the eye from being turned out of position. I have formed the incurvations ein the hook member Z ofthe device with exactly the same object in view. It will be noted that the said incurvationsareso situated in the shank relatively to. the inclined portion of its tongue that the crossing threads by which the hook is secured at this point are not materially interfered with by the tongue. It will be obvious that the incurvations e in the shank of the hook are merely provided for the purpose of closing the eyelets of said hook at this point.

' It will be seen in Fig. 2 that the members of the eye are not all situated in the same plane. The loop of the eye is slightly turned up out of the plane of the shank and eyelets at 'm. This arrangement facilitates the engagement of the hook and eye, because the loop of the latter member is normally retained but of contact with the fabric to which it is attached.

The modifications of the hook shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are exactly like that form of this member of my device already described, with the exception that in Fig. 3 the angle formed by bending the tongue at h is an obtuse angle instead of approximately a right angle, as appears in Fig. 2, that in Fig. 4 the tongue of the hook has its free end bent back parallel to the plane of the shank of the hook, being otherwise like that form of tongue shown in Fig. 3, and that in Fig. 5 the tongue, which hasthe type of bend shown in Fig. 2, has its extremity bent back, as in the case of the tongue shown in Fig. 4. That form of tongue shown in the first two of these figures Figs. 3 and &obviously facilitates the better engagement and disengagement of the hook from the eye and may be preferable in some instances to the form shown in Fig. 2. The end of the tongue is rebent in Figs. 4 and 5, so that it will not cut the fabric.

The general features of the hook and eye shown in Fig. 6 are similar to those of the hook and eye shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the only difference being that in the former case the members of the device are stamped out of sheet metal and then bent into the required shape.

It will be noticed that in all of the forms of tongue shown the bend h therein is situated in or approximately in the plane of the tip of the bill. Said bend it is therefore a means for protection of the point of the bill.

From the foregoing it will be manifest that I have provided a very practical hook and eye, the members of which are so formed as to render their accidental disengagement practically impossible. At the same time owing to the comparative shortness of the bill I) of the hook, which renders it necessary to pass the loop of the eye but a short distance back of the extremity of the hook in connecting the members, and owing to the peculiar formation of the tongue of said hook and the slight upturn of the loop of the eye easy engagement and disengagement of the parts are greatly facilitated.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter comprising'two spaced members, and a tongue projecting toward said bill from the eyelet end of the hook and being deflected near its free end downwardly and terminating between the shank members, the deflection in said tongue being gradual, and the tip of the bill terminating short of said deflection and in a horizontal plane therewith, substantially as described.

2. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter comprising two spaced members, and a tongue situated'between said shank members and being inclined from the shank upwardly toward, and then deflected near its free end downwardly from, the bill and terminating between said shank members, the deflection in said tongue being gradual, and the tip of the bill terminating short of said deflection and in a horizontal plane therewith, substantially as described.

3. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and shank, the latter comprising two spaced members, and a tongue situated between said shank members and being inclined from the shank upwardly toward, and then deflected near its free end downwardly from, the bill and terminating between the shank members, the deflection in said tongue being gradual and in,or approximately in, a horizontal plane and contact with the tip of the bill, and the shank members having oppositely-disposed and inwardly-projecting incurvations opposite the inclined portion of the tongue, substantially as described.

4. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, billand shank, the latter com prising two spaced members, and a tongue situated between said shank members and being inclined from the shank upwardly toward, and then deflected downwardly from, the bill and terminating between the shank members, the end portion of the tongue being rebent near its extremity in the plane of the shank, the deflection in said tongue being gradual and in, or approximately in, a horizontal plane and contact with the tip of the bill and the shank members having oppositely-disposed and inwardly-projecting incurvations opposite the inclined portion of the tongue, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN \V. GROESCHEL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM GROESCHEL, FRED J. STUHR. 

